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May 25, 2000

* Andy, Hampton: I was reading Tony Blankley's article on A15 Tuesday: I really appreciate you putting it in there. I was going to write a letter about Ms. Thomases involvement. If the paper would just do a little bit of investigation - there were fewer than 100,000 people at the rally - instead of repeating the figures of 750,000, then that would be a good news story. I've seen those figures on two sites on the Internet.

* PKS, Williamsburg: OK, I give up. How did Janet Guthrie manage to finish 34th in the 1979 Indy 500, as reported in Tuesday's Sports section?

Editor's response: Check the official Indy Web site. It shows Guthrie finishing 34. Is it the accuracy of the fact that you are questioning?

* N.W. Bailey, Yorktown: On the HarborLink story on C8: Out of all that information, the most important to me was, where do you catch the ferry in Hampton? If an article on how badly the ferry is doing doesn't enlighten the reader then what good is the information? No wonder the ridership is low.

Editor's response: The ferry leaves from the pier behind the Hampton Visitor Center, at 710 Settlers Landing Road. It makes several runs a day, beginning at 7:15 a.m. Call for a schedule. The information number is 722-9300.

* Re: Feedback notices where readers feel that the story of the baby should not be printed. Yes, compassion should be used. But this is a very serious tragedy that ended in the death of a child because of an adult's failure to act as an adult. I hope the law is applied. Yes, what he did is sad, but he broke the law and that is the fact.

* Smithfield: Refer your proofreaders to the bovine species mentioned in Spencer's article. That is a beef cattle term, if you will. The Smithfield facilities process the porcine species. Thank you.

Editor's response: Spencer can't blame the heat on the kill floor for this one. He knows better, but his fingers were typing while his brain was engaged elsewhere. See the correction on this page.

Tom Plachte: Tell Jim Spencer that there is quite a bit of difference between a bovine and porcine and the North Pole and Hawaii.